The 2017 Barbados Premier League (officially the Digicel Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is the 71st season of the highest tier of football in Barbados. UWI Blackbirds are the defending champions, coming off their first league title.
Changes from 2016 Empire Club and Pinelands United were relegated to Barbados Division One. Ellerton and Waterford Compton were promoted to the Premier League.
Table
Positions by round
Statistics
Top scorers RankScorerClubGoals1 Dario HarewoodUWI Blackbirds132 Shakille BelleEllerton10 Zeco EdmeeNotre Dame10 Hadan HolliganWeymouth Wales10 Arantees LawrenceWeymouth Wales106 Armando LashleyParadise9 Shandel SamuelRendezvous98 Shaquille BoyceBDF8 Alvin ChapmanBelfield8 Rashad JulesBDF8
Hat-tricks PlayerClubAgainstResultDate Mario Harte UWI Blackbirds Waterford Compton 4-0 2 February 2017 Armando Lashley Paradise Notre Dame 1-5 16 February 2017 Shaquille Boyce BDF Waterford Compton 0-7 26 February 2017 Omani Leacock BDF Waterford Compton 0-7 26 February 2017 Zeco Edmee4 Notre Dame UWI Blackbirds 4-4 2 March 2017 Arantees Lawrence Weymouth Wales Waterford Compton 8-0 19 March 2017 Armando Lashley Paradise BDF 3-0 2 April 2017 Ray Snagg Rendezvous Ellerton 0-5 2 April 2017 Dario Harewood4 UWI Blackbirds Waterford Compton 1-5 9 April 2017 Dwayne Stanford Rendezvous Belfield 6-3 15 April 2017 Dario Harewood UWI Blackbirds Belfield 2-4 7 May 2017 Shandel Samuel Rendezvous Waterford Compton 9-2 7 May 2017
4 Player scored 4 goals.
Attendances
The average league attendance was 194.
# Club Average 1 Weymouth Wales 613 2 Notre Dame 235 3 BDF 197 4 UWI Blackbirds 176 5 Rendezvous 169 6 Paradise 142 7 Ellerton 138 8 Brittons Hill 112 9 Waterford Compton 87 10 Belfield 73
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